Overview
- Thirteen senior law-enforcement officials from Long Island, Westchester, Rockland and Connecticut completed a week in Israel organized by the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs with the Community Security Initiative and Community Security Service.
- The itinerary included a briefing on Israel Police’s Mabat 2000 surveillance network and visits to the Nova festival site and kibbutzim attacked on Oct. 7, along with meetings at the Jerusalem command center.
- Participants said the training deepened cultural understanding and counterterror practices they plan to apply to protect local Jewish communities, citing data that Jews accounted for a disproportionate share of NYC hate-crime targets in early 2025.
- This was the second such U.S. law-enforcement visit since the Gaza war, and several attendees had previously been evacuated from a trip that began the day before Oct. 7, while no NYPD leaders joined due to UN General Assembly scheduling.
- Human-rights groups and critics cautioned that Israeli-style training can fuel police militarization, racial profiling and protest crackdowns in the United States.